Chapter 58: Chopping Jin of the tiger stance
“Commander Zhou.”
“Commander.”
The twelve doughty looking youths didn’t even spare Wang Chao or Cao Yi a glance and instead stood to attention to the General Zhou behind the two.
Each one of them was in a straight salute.
Returning the salute, Zhou waved his hand, “At ease.”
Relaxing now, the dozen n finally begun to look at Wang Chao and Cao Yi. asuring up the two, the soldiers began to chat amongst each other.
“So this Zhou person is a commander and major general, he must be a high ranking official.” When Wang Chao heard how the soldiers had called him, he knew that this Zhou person was soone special. But the rankings of the military wasn’t sothing he was familiar with–the only knowledge he had of it was from the TV.
He never would had thought that a high school student that just recently graduated would have made contact with the military and governnt.
“The organization has brought you here under my supervision for a special mission, so listen up.” General Zhou smiled. “Co, let introduce you, this is the provincial public safety chief, Cao Yi. In the future, he will be your imdiate superior. The specific details will be up to Chief Cao to speak, do you understand?”
“Understood!” The 12 n spoke out at the sa ti enthusiastically.
“That’s good. Cao Yi, the people the organization has sent is now yours to pull. Let us hear of your mission.” General Zhou spoke while giving Cao Yi the go ahead.
Giving a knowing nod, Cao Yi stepped forward and gave a greeting, “Hello everyone!”
“Hello, Chief Cao…”
“Hello, chief…”
The cries were sparse and not as enthusiastic as it was just a minute ago.
Narrowing his eyes, Cao Yi cut to the chase, “Everyone here ca from the organization, so they must know of the special mission assigned to us. So tell , what does everyone think about this mission and why we are here?”
“Are we not going to be undercover agents in the underworld? Or fight evil and pretend to be officers? One of the twelve spoke before everyone else roared with laughter.
“What quality! You all haven’t been disciplined at all!” Cao Yi fud.
“Everyone be quiet!” Seeing Cao Yi grow angry, one of the leading soldiers imdiately gave a hand signal, resulting in the entire barrack to grow silent.
The sa soldier walked forward, “Chief Cao, it isn’t because we haven’t been disciplined by the organization.We will listen to your command for this mission and accomplish it to the best of our abilities! It’s just that we heard that aren’t even going to be the main force for this, are we not? Are we really going to be handing over the reins to soone that isn’t even a part of the military? We don’t know who chief Cao may have picked, but please open our eyes to what type of person this inferior civilian expert may be.”
Laughing, Cao Yi spoke, “I know that you army n would be reluctant to accept a civilian fighter, but I’ll let you see for yourself. Wang Chao, please co up.”
Wang Chao had naturally abided by Cao Yi’s words and walked forward.
“Haha, it’s this kid?”
“Has he even grown hair down there yet?”
“Hahahaha, are we running out of n in the army or sothing?”
The entire barracks began to howl with laughter.
Wang Chao knew that he didn’t look outstanding, robust, or even had any noticeable muscles. The only thing about him was that his skin was a golden brown and showed off the toned curvatures of his body.
This difference in physical image to the soldiers was as clear to see as from a cow to a horse. The army soldiers were all excellently built and had muscles that far outstripped what could be seen on Wang Chao’s body. From the outside, Wang Chao was a delicate stick that would snap just from being in the wind.
“I too ca from the military, so let be straightforward with you. I know you egg-headed soldiers won’t accept this, so let’s not waste words and put your skill where your mouth is! Who wants to go up first? If you can win against him, then I will report to the organization and redo the plan!”
Cao Yi’s words had been spoken with excitent, but the next few words spoken were quite sloppy. “Harsh words aside, this mission will be completely serious. This is a mission where there will be the chance of becoming disabled or even killed! This mission was given and started by , so compete for a position within. If you are injured or killed in action, you will be given a ritorious Service dal, second class, or beco a martyr to the cause.”
“Hamr, you go up. Careful, you don’t want to accidentally cripple this “Wushu” civilian.” The speaker had spoken the word wushu in a mocking way, as if to emphasize his disdain for Wang Chao.
TL Note: 武术 (Wushu): martial arts as a sport. The soldiers says 舞术 (Wushu): A pun with the word for dance instead of Martial. The soldier is mocking Wang Chao, saying that instead of the already lowly martial arts made for sport, he was learning the Martial Arts made for theatrical performances.
But even Wang Chao could understand the mocking jeer of the soldier. The n from the military generally learned martial arts in a way ant for combat, its true purpose instead of for sport. The majority of martial arts that civilians learned were generally for exercise purposes. Bits and pieces of the fighting thod and practice thod were combined into one with theatrical exaggerations thrown in haphazardly. With such a muddled ss, there could be no way it could be truly called martial arts.
Thus, those in the military had always looked down on civilian practitioners.
So for him to be recomnded by Cao Yi to be their opponent, none of the soldiers could accept this.
Swish! The crowd pulled away in order to form a giant ring as Hamr walked forward to stand three ters away from Wang Chao.
This Hamr was the one Wang Chao saw hitting the steel plate. Each one of his fists were rather strong and fast, showing that he had relentlessly practiced how to fight.
“Hey kid, make your move! Show how well you can dance with your ‘Wushu’! Will you be showing us a great rhythm and an elegant posture?” Hamr ridiculed. Wrapping both arms against his chest, his entire body began to exude with self confidence.
But Wang Chao didn’t underestimate Hamr. After that one year journey, he had already washed away the impatience and emotional influxes. He wouldn’t see anyone as an enemy straight away, and neither would he be easily taunted by anyone’s words.
Nodding, Wang Chao spoke, “Then I’ll make my move, be careful. When I move, be careful for your life.”
As soon as he spoke, Wang Chao’s backmost leg kicked off while his frontmost leg slid across the ground as if imitating the shape of the crescent moon. His body shot forward with the speed of an arrow shout out from a bow.
In an instant he had rushed two ters closer, leaving only a single step to Hamr.
Shooting forward with his fists aid at Hamr’s dian line, Wang Chao’s fists struck out with Jin. As soon as his right hand extended, it had connected with Hamr’s chest.
When Wang Chao’s arm had traveled through the air, a “crack!” could be heard as if a whip was snapped.
As soon as a single blow was made, the entire audience was stunned.
Wang Chao’s fist had been extraordinarily nimble and strong. With the cracking sound, no one would be able to maintain a strong bravado!
Hamr would have never imagined that such a fragile looking person like Wang Chao would have been able to cause such a blow capable of knocking down a mountain!
Hearing the crack, Hamr could foretell with his fighting experience that this fist would be better to avoid instead of defending against. With a startled jump, his feet dragged him backwards.
It went without saying that Hamr was a specially trained soldier that had a faster reaction ti than a regular person. With a quick step backwards, he had been able to move a ter out of the way and completely dodging Wang Chao’s fist.
At the sa ti, he had took the ti to bring up his leg.
The leg had been strong and carried a deadly wind as it aid for Wang Chao’s chest.
Pa! Wang Chao’s fist opened up and smashed his entire arm against Hamr’s leg as if it was a plank of wood.
Relax the muscles and attack with the pores to break out naturally. If the enemy doesn’t move, then one shouldn’t move either. When the enemy moves, then one should move before him.
When listening to one’s potential movents, it was easy to predict the next strike.
Just as Hamr was moving back, Wang Chao had already “listened” to his muscle’s reaction and knew just what he would do, so he had brought up his arm as an appropriate reaction.
It was like a cage ready for soone to charge into.
As soon as the strike hit his bones, Hamr felt his leg go numb and start to shake. However, because of his quality training, he imdiately brought his leg back and retreated.
But Wang Chao didn’t give up and persisted after him!
Spreading both legs, Wang Chao’s posture made him seem larger as his arms moved in a circle as if he was grabbing onto a giant halberd to cleave down onto Hamr.
This was the Chopping Fist Jin of the tiger stance.
Within Xingyi, the tiger stance and the Chopping Fist were almost the one and sa. The Chopping Fist Jin required both hands to be wide apart and to expand the lungs in a large and long breath as if ready to cleave a mountain with an axe.
The tiger stance was the sa. It required a large imposing stance similar to a tiger prowling down the mountain. With a large shout, the entire mountain would shake and the winds would scatter the clouds.
Now that Wang Chao had learned the Hidden Jin, his body was vigorous and filled with power. With each hit, there would be very few that could defend against his power or escape his Taichi.
Hamr didn’t know what Wang Chao had done, but the way he had suddenly grown larger had made him resemble so sort of axe deity materialized into real life. His heart couldn’t help but feel intimidated as his fighting spirit began to feel defeated.
In a hurry, Hamr threw up both his hands in an attempt to protect his head against Wang Chao’s chop. After that, he would prepare a counter attack.
But what he hadn’t known was that Wang Chao’s Chopping Fist Jin of the tiger stance was far too strong for him to block. Even without the Hidden Jin, the fist would bear down upon Hamr like an extrely heavy weight.
With that chopping motion, Hamr imdiately felt an acute sense of pain in his arm at the sa ti of a cracking sound.
His robust arm had been unexpectedly broken by Wang Chao.
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